The Amazing Digital Cookie Run

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Another game I hadn't played since 2021 has also re-entered my life this year. I saw word-of-mouth advertising for Cookie Run Crumble, a new game in the series, a few months ago, and since it was explicitly an idle game, I thought I'd try it for fun. It ended up sending me into a hole of "getting entirely back into Cookie Run" that I both did and didn't expect.

I played LINE Cookie Run back in the day and was there on day one for both Ovenbreak and Kingdom, so that's my Cookie street cred. I'm currently working on an incredibly long article/article series about the entire game franchise that I have no idea when I'll finish, so I'll hold on the "explaining everything about the game" in this post.

There are a handful of other spinoffs, but the three I have on my phone right now are Ovenbreak, Kingdom, and Crumble. I really only play Ovenbreak and Crumble, and have BlueStacks set up on my computer to play Kingdom sometimes, because that game turns my phone into a furnace that eats a battery percentage every couple seconds. Crumble is also badly optimized, so I really only play it when I know I'll be able to charge my phone again soon. Ovenbreak actually plays well and doesn't destroy my phone's temperature and battery, plus it has actual gameplay that I enjoy, so that's the one I play the most. Unfortunately it is the only one of the three that I play that is not doing a TADC crossover event at the moment.

That's right, the title of this thread isn't JUST a stupid joke! The Amazing Digital Cookies are here! The title of this thread will become funnier as time passes after the event, but I could not pass up calling my Cookie Run thread what I have been calling the game series every time I open up Kingdom or Crumble and see the TADC promos.

I think the collab is really cute and though I'm not particularly motivated to grind for them in Kingdom, I'm trying to get as much as I can of them in Crumble. There's a lot of little dialogue and story tidbits scattered throughout both games that aren't anything groundbreaking for either series, but are fun to have since I like both TADC and CR. I am probably one of the oldest members of the target audience for this crossover. >_>

I would love to have the TADC cast in Ovenbreak, but last month they did a cute Sanrio collab, so that's fine. I actually managed to complete at least the main "campsite decorating" mission series during the event period, all without spending any money. I am firmly free-to-play in these games, partly because they throw so much free stuff at you already, partly because I refuse to pay money for gacha games. If I'm gonna succumb to dark patterns, I'll do it with only one of my life resources, thank you very much.

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OvenBreak has just begun its 10th anniversary event, which I have mixed feelings on. The story for it is fun, and it's another spin on the multiverse sorta thing every media (including other Cookie Run games) is doing now, which thankfully I'm not completely tired of yet. However, its special game modes are significantly worse on performance than the normal ones, and regularly crash the app when I try to play it on my phone. Yikes. I wonder if it's just that my phone is starting to get too old (it's only like 6 years old!), or if there are the same memory problems and lack of optimization that are standard for the other games in the series.

Well, I'll play what I can of the update. It's fun when I can actually play it. And you can have a custom character now, like Kingdom has. I like dressing up my gay little cookie and I like that I can actually run as it in this game as opposed to the weird "social" functions the one in Kingdom serves.